"I want the Labour Party to protest nationally and bury people beneath leaflets"

Corbyn et al constantly talk about reversing the cuts. A large part of their whole platform is based on anti-austerity which Corbyn has stated time and time again is an ideological choice, not an economic necessity. McDonnell is going round the country literally hosting seminars and lectures on better ways of managing the economy so that we don't have to do what this government is doing. The government has climbed down over both tax credit cuts and police cuts - whether you want to attribute that to Labour's opposition or not.

You can't reverse cuts yourself unless you're in power - but you can protest and oppose in order to pressure the government into a reversal, and if you're going to claim that Corbyn hasn't been doing that, then you haven't been listening or watching.

Of course it would be absolutely wonderful if Labour could organise continual national demonstrations and bury people beneath mountains of leaflets - but then we'd have no money and wouldn't be able to do the other thing you're demanding and fund a campaign to get elected in 2020.

The leadership is damned if they do and damned if they don't. On the one hand we're now a protest party, on the other we're not protesting enough.

Ros Altmann, a former Downing Street pension adviser, said Labour’s move marked ‘the beginning of the end of the gold standard pension that British workers could rely on from their boss’. She added: ‘This is money that has come out of people’s pensions. It paved the way for the end of final salary schemes because it made them so much more expensive. They were suddenly unaffordable.’